Re: Gnus question

[pulsarpietro@posteo.net]

Oks, I kinda got it working, or at least not failing miserably, it is 
just that it takes ages to "Checking new news".



On 26.01.2016 18:08, pulsarpietro@posteo.net wrote:
> Thanks a lot, I have tried to use your file as my .gnus.el startup
> file, nothing is working though.
> 
> As soon as I start gnus (M-x gnus) I get :
> 
> Error in ~/.gnus: Cannot open load file
> 
> Any thoughts ?
> 
> On 26.01.2016 04:12, Emanuel Berg wrote:
>> Pietro <pulsarpietro@posteo.net> writes:
>> 
>>> I am not sure this is the right place for a question
>>> regarding gnus, if there is a more specific mailing
>>> list for it please point me at that so I can try to
>>> post there.
>> 
>> This is the right place, or one of many right places
>> because yes, there are Gnus lists/newsgroups.
>> 
>> One can use Gnus and in particular Gmane to find out.
>> And Gmane is actually the answer to your other
>> question as well!
>> 
>> You set it up like this:
>> 
>>     (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gmane.org"))
>> 
>> If you need help to get it up and running, check out
>> this file, and the other files in the same directory
>> (or ask here again, of course):
>> 
>>     http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/emacs-init/gnus/gnus-my.el
>> 
>> When you get it to work, run
>> `gnus-group-enter-server-mode' (hit `^' in the group
>> buffer), then find the Gmane line (should be
>> "nntp: news.gmane.org" or something similar) and hit
>> RET. Then make a search for "gnus":
>> 
>>     K     64: gmane.emacs.gnus.announce
>>     K    787: gmane.emacs.gnus.buildbot
>>     K   6351: gmane.emacs.gnus.commits
>>     K  12504: gmane.emacs.gnus.cvs
>>     K  82890: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
>>     K     30: gmane.emacs.gnus.patches
>>     K    262: gmane.emacs.gnus.semi
>>     K  13531: gmane.emacs.gnus.semi.japanese
>>     K      1: gmane.emacs.gnus.tutorial
>>        17939: gmane.emacs.gnus.user
>> 
>> Move point to the desired group and do
>> `gnus-browse-unsubscribe-current-group' (key: `u') to
>> subscribe (yes, the name is confusing).
>> 
>>> I am wrestling with GNU to get my email splitting
>>> done, I am actually trying to split the email coming
>>> from the this mailing list address and this is how
>>> my .gnus.el looks like [...]
>> 
>> And this is the whole thing with Gmane - you don't
>> have to split mails from mailing lists into
>> pseudo-newsgroups anymore! Gmane does that for you.
>> So in your group buffer you can have
>> 
>>     6     gmane.comp.shells.zsh.devel              463
>>     6     gmane.comp.shells.zsh.user                87
>>     6     gmane.emacs.devel                       2399
>>     6     gmane.emacs.erc.general
>>     3     gmane.emacs.gnus.user
>>     3     gmane.emacs.help                          18
>>     6     gmane.emacs.sources                       28
>>     6     gmane.emacs.w3m
>>     3     gmane.linux.debian.user                    1
>> 
>> and so on but you don't need to deal with any of the
>> subscription overhead and you don't have to do the
>> splitting stuff.